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Participate in ODU's Earth Day Celebration through the Virgina BioBlitz at Back Bay Wildlife Refuge in Virginia Beach on April 23, where you will have mutiple opportunites for engagement at the Refuge throughout the day. Opportunties include: an electrofishing demonstration and survey, nature walks, and bioblitizing where you will record plants and animals present on the Refuge. Virgina BioBlitz will be occuring in parks all across the state on April 23.

The schedule of events is as follows:7:30am: Check-in at North Mall (by Starbucks)8am: Leave for Back Bay Wildlife Refuge9am-Noon: Explore and Volunteer at Back Bay 9am: Electrofishing demostration and survey with Chad Boyce, the Region 1 District Fisheries Biologist for the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries 10am-Noon: Back Bay's Natural History walk from Back Bay to the Atlantic Ocean with Reese Lukei 9am-Noon: Bioblitz walks to document all the life found along the beach and bay Noon: Meet at the shuttle Eat lunch at the False Cape State Park Return to campus for 2pm

If you have questions about this event or other Earth Day Celebration events, please email volunteer@odu.edu or call (757) 683-6948.